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Graphic: Body horror, Cannibalism, Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death
Very chilling in how possible this scenario would be. Human rights violations are happening everyday, genocides are happening before us, what will stop governments from encouraging cannibalism if they have something to gain from it?
The use of cold, straight language is very effective. It's chilling in it's almost clinical and straight approach, and works for a character that knowingly toes moral lines to his convenience.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Gore, Violence, Dementia, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Death of parent
Moderate: Excrement, Vomit
Minor: Rape
The book describes in extreme detail an absolutely dystopian nightmare of humans being raised for slaughter and eaten.
The book does an excellent job of having the main character know and understanding the horror he sees everyday, and understands its completely wrong. This character is around before the world went to shit.
The ending was not what I expected. All in all a good horror book that does a good job with wrestling with psychological trauma and.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Dementia, Grief, Cannibalism, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Cannibalism
Minor: Child death
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Classism
Moderate: Child death, Dementia, Death of parent
First, it is just an uncomfortable read. it deals with a very dark subject, legalized cannibalism, and it doesn't shy away from some of the logical results of such a legal policy. I completely understand that this is a way of shining light on the meat industry and how humans treat animals. It isn't trying to be subtle in that regard. It is just disturbing in that way and if you decide to read the book you need to understand this is what you are getting into.
Second, and this is what I think may be more relative to my rating, I don't think once the book sets up its premise and purpose that it goes anywhere interesting. The book basically sets up the premise, gives some detail of the main character's daily life in this world, shows the character struggling with his reality, and then ends with him ultimately not doing anything different or evolving as a human. This is what I find most egregious. the book just doesn't have anything else to say once it sets up its main ideas and the main character's growth is minimal at best. There was an opportunity for the author to really say something interesting about humanity and human nature but instead just went with "yeah, we suck."
I guess this book received most of its attention due to the shocking nature of the central idea and maybe not so much as a complete narrative. It was kept me interested but the end just didn't deliver anything of note.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Wish I could read it in the original Spanish-- the prose seems to try to break through at times but ultimately I couldn't tell whether the translation was faithful or too literal.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol
Minor: Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Infertility, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder